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Carbondale Police Press Release - Mob Action, Aggravated Battery, and Robbery
NEWS RELEASE
City of Carbondale, Illinois
October 8, 2025
For Immediate Release
CARBONDALE – On October 6, 2025, at 5:55 p.m., City of Carbondale Police Officers responded to the 200 block of West Main Street for a report of an Aggravated Battery and Robbery. Officers learned three suspects battered the victim and stole property belonging to the victim during a personal dispute in the 100 block of North Washington Street. The victim was taken by ambulance to the emergency room for treatment of the non-life-threatening injuries sustained during the incident. Officers located and arrested one of the suspects, identified as Marquis A. McNary, age 33, of Carbondale. McNary was arrested for Mob Action, Aggravated Battery, and Robbery and incarcerated in the Jackson County Jail pending a detention hearing. Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the police department at the numbers listed below. The investigation remains active and ongoing.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the City of Carbondale Police Department at (618) 549-2121. You may also call the Carbondale/SIU Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (618) 549-COPS (2677) or the Murphysboro/Jackson County anonymous tip line at (618) 687-COPS (2677). Anonymous tips may also be made by selecting the “Crime Stoppers” tab on this website’s main page. Please help yourself and your county, its communities, and the university campus by using these numbers if you witness or have any information about a crime. Cash rewards for information that leads to an arrest are also made anonymously. Remember, crime doesn’t pay, but Crime Stoppers does! For more information about Crime Stoppers, please follow the QR Code.
The mission of the Carbondale Police Department is to work in partnership with our community to preserve life, protect human rights, protect property and improve quality of life by providing police service to all in a fair, sensitive, and professional manner.